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The Complexity of Selling Libre Software and Freedom in General
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Blender DumbassWe are Selling Freedom Wrong! And I don't think this problem only applies to Libre Software or the Fediverse. It think this problem is applicable broader. I think the sense of "the end of the world" that a lot of people are feeling right now, comes exactly from this problem. From the bad enshitified software we are forced to use, to the various wars around the globe, to the unsettling uprising of complete political instability. All of that is blamable on the same problem: We are Selling Freedom Wrong!.
Clarifying Costs of Running the Fediverse with Jerry from Infosec.Exchange
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Blender DumbassI decided since I don't understand how all of this works, I will just simply ask Jerry personally about all of this data and technical details, so that people will no longer be confused about all of this.
Includes an exclusive interview with Jerry.
We have to solve the money problem!
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Blender DumbassOn the Fireside Fedi interview with Jerry ( the admin of Infosec.Exchange Mastodon instance ) a scary truth was suddenly revealed ( on 34:11 ): Just to keep the instance up and running he needs to spend up to $5000 a month, pretty much out of his pocket. Donations to the instance barely cover any of that. And if he will ask people to pay to use it, they will, rightfully so, switch to a different instance.
The Impossible Challenge of the BT Free logo
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Blender DumbassBTFree stands for Big Tech Free. Talking to @Ozoned we came up with a few ideas that might be interesting to pursue. For example the B could be drawn as a Bee. A nasty, kind of, insect character. Then if you add to it an English Top Hat and a cup of T. Well you get yourself an Oligarch. A nasty Oligarch. Representing the Big Tech ( BT ). But how do you want to get Free from it?
It's Better to Want It Than to Need It
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Blender DumbassA lot of people claim that they need to use proprietary software, either for work or something else. And the question is. Do they consent to it, or the existence of a need makes it some sort of a power dynamic?
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PeerTube | Optimization Nightmare when it comes to UPBGE Gamedev | Dani's Race | Blender 3D | Python
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Blender DumbassWorking to make a game which is very hard to optimize a bit more respectable when it comes to performance. Which is easier said than done. This video is a journey of pain that is optimization in UPBGE ( the game engine chosen for Dani's Race ).
Featuring a new soundtracks for Dani's Race called "Light Driving" ( and another one with no proper title yet ) done using soundfont "Touhou" cc-by by Team Shanghai Alice. The tracks themselves are CC-BY-SA and for now a test version of them are available on my mastodon.
The video includes ( at 01:18:53 ) a section from the livestream of LogalDeveloper that happened on his Owncast on 02/05/2025.
PeerTube | I fixed the Curbs | Exercise in Pointlessness | Dani's Race GTA Clone | UPBGE Blender 3D on GNU / Linux
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Blender DumbassI'm punishing myself for being tired by doing a pointless work ( which ended up being only partially pointless ) on my GTA clone Dani's Race.
PewDiePie is now using GNU / Linux
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Blender DumbassPewDiePie, once the king of YouTube, has now decided to stop shannigans and move to GNU / Linux operating system. And not simply to move to GNU / Linux, but stop using Photoshop and move to GNU Image Manipulation program, known as GIMP. Go back to using OBS. And even gave a rather okay-ish explanation of GNU / Linux and his reasons to move to it, to his 110 million followers, in a video he published titled: I installed Linux (so should you).
PeerTube | Bugs! How are they fixed? | Also First Person Mode | Dani's Race UPBGE Blender 3D on GNU / Linux
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Blender DumbassIn this video I fix some bugs in Dani's Race. And also implement a first person mode.
PeerTube | One does not simply make a HIGHWAY for Dani's Race | Blender 3D on GNU / Linux | Feat. RowdyJoe
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Blender DumbassIn this video I show the process of extending a game world and how tedious it might be. The video is featuring @RowdyJoe who's Mastodon account you need to follow to sign the current petition.
PeerTube | Dani's Race | First Year of Development
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Blender DumbassThe story of the First Year of development of Dani's Race.
Odysee | Software That Kills It's Users
Blender DumbassVideo about Free Software and dangers of non-free software.
A Rant About Making a Multiplayer Game
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Blender DumbassThe multiplayer, or the lack there of, at the moment is so utterly broken and so lacking of being properly made that for a long time, I was just not bothering with it. Seeing it as something unnecessary. Something that does not need to be touched, because other things, like the story or some gimmicky thing is more important for the game than the multiplayer. But people's demands for it didn't stop. So I thought now is a good time to actually properly design it.
Gamedev Makes You Better at Math
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Blender DumbassWhen I started with Dani's Race I thought that the extend of my programming will be something like dynamically changing the speed of a car and maybe loading and unloading certain things on the map based on the distance from them. But quickly it became a mind-field of math and other programming cleverness. About which I will talk to you in this article
Libre Games and Making Money: Introducing Petitions
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Blender DumbassMost Free / Libre Software projects are maintained either by strong communities, or through some kind of donation system. Libre Games struggle with both aspects. There are community driven games, but those lack vision and coherent style, because different people contribute differently, on different skill levels and with different stylistic choices. And no corporation is benefiting from existence of libre games, therefor no serious donations are ever expected to be coming their way.
With the petitions idea, which could also be described as some sort of "reverse crowd-funding", I want to try to give Libre Games a chance at sustainability. Which if successful could make Libre Software as a whole more appealing. And perhaps do some good in the world.
Story Without Cutscenes in Dani's Race
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Blender DumbassThe challenge for Dani's Race is deliberately not to be a movie. As in the game should not have cuts, nor there ever should be a moment when the player loses control over the character. Yet through all those limitations I want to continue a story I started in an actual movie. Which is kind of complicated.